ABBA
– More
ABBA Gold
CD, US 1993
Polydor
If
ABBA's Gold
the lightness, then More
ABBA Gold
is the poison leaked from that supposed happiness. On repeated
listens, this can be the most depressing album ever. Or just a
romantic mood about to fall over. Songs like The
Day Before You Came
list the hours before finding perhaps Mr. or Ms. Of one's life - but
there is something so banal and depressing about it all.
The genius of Benny Andersson and
Bjorn Ulvaeus' music and words is that its music for the every
person, but to acknowledge such romantic dreams and failure turns it
into an operatic theater piece of sorts. Its beautiful and full of
surface feelings, but if you dig underneath their image, you'll find
a certain amount of despair. ABBA is so unique and one with its
time. Essential pop that doesn't really speak for its era (the 70's)
but in its own time-warp. ABBA reminds me of some outside artists
who make up their own world and there is our world and then there's
ABBA's world.
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